edu.ucar.opensky::articles:23517 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-25T15:05:35.754128 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7tt4v6d Microphysical properties of generating cells over the Southern Ocean: Results from Socrates 2020-07-16T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7tt4v6d https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD032237 Wang, Y. author McFarquhar, G. M. author Rauber, R. M. author Zhao, C. author Wu, W. author Finlon, J. A. author Stechman, D. M. author Stith, Jeffrey Len author Jensen, Jørgen B. author Schnaiter, M. author Järvinen, Emma author Waitz, F. author Vivekanandan, Jothiram author Dixon, Michael J. author Rainwater, B. author Toohey, D. W. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The bulk microphysical properties and number distribution functions (N(D)) of supercooled liquid water (SLW) and ice inside and between ubiquitous generating cells (GCs) observed over the Southern Ocean (SO) during the Southern Ocean Clouds Radiation Aerosol Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES) measured by in situ cloud probes onboard the NCAR/NSF G-V aircraft are compared. SLW was detected inside all GCs with an average liquid water content of 0.31 +/- 0.19 g m(-3), 11% larger than values between GCs. TheN(D)of droplets (maximum dimensionD < 50 mu m) inside and between GCs had only slight differences. For ice particles, on the other hand, the mean concentration (median mass diameter) withD > 200 mu m inside GCs was 2.0 +/- 3.3 L-1(323 +/- 263 mu m), 65% (37%) larger than values outside GCs. AsDincreases, the percentage differences became larger (up to similar to 500%). The more and larger ice particles inside GCs suggest the GC updrafts provide a favorable environment for particle growth by deposition and riming and that mixing processes are less efficient at redistributing larger particles. The horizontal scale of observed GCs ranged from 200 to 600 m with a mean of 395 +/- 162 m, smaller than GC widths observed in previous studies. This study expands knowledge of the microphysical properties and processes acting in GCs over a wider range of conditions than previously available. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2020 American Geophysical Union. None eng geoscientificInformation